The age of pre-training is basically over, I think everyone acknowledged this and it's not to do with not having a big enough cluster. The bull argument on AI is that inference time scaling will pull us to the next step
Except o3 benchmarks are, seemingly, pretty solid evidence that leaving LLM'S on for the better part of a day and spending a million dollars gets you... Nothing. Passing a basic logic test using brute force methods and which falls apart on a marginally easier test that it just wasn't trained on.
The returns on computer and data seem to be diminishing with more and more exponential increases in inputs returning geometric increases in quality, and we're out of quality training data so that is now much worse even if the scaling wasn't plateauing.
All this, and the scale that got us this far seems to have done nothing to give us real intelligence, there's no planning or real reasoning and this is demonstrated every time it tries to do something out of distribution, or even in distribution but just complicated. Even if we got another crank or two out of this, we're still at the bottom of the mountain here. We haven't started and we're already out of gas
Scale doesn't fix this any more than building a mile tall fence stops the next break in. If it was going to work we would have seen to work already. LLM's don't have much juice left in the squeeze, imo
Except o3 benchmarks are, seemingly, pretty solid evidence that leaving LLM'S on for the better part of a day and spending a million dollars gets you... Nothing. Passing a basic logic test using brute force methods and which falls apart on a marginally easier test that it just wasn't trained on.
The returns on computer and data seem to be diminishing with more and more exponential increases in inputs returning geometric increases in quality, and we're out of quality training data so that is now much worse even if the scaling wasn't plateauing.
All this, and the scale that got us this far seems to have done nothing to give us real intelligence, there's no planning or real reasoning and this is demonstrated every time it tries to do something out of distribution, or even in distribution but just complicated. Even if we got another crank or two out of this, we're still at the bottom of the mountain here. We haven't started and we're already out of gas
Scale doesn't fix this any more than building a mile tall fence stops the next break in. If it was going to work we would have seen to work already. LLM's don't have much juice left in the squeeze, imo